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===Career=== | |||
*Professor Sedgewick became Senior Fellow of Languages in 240AC | |||
*She has mastered more than 40 languages, and is a leading authority in the ancient languages of the Perplex City region | |||
*She maintains a particular emphasis on techniques of teaching languages to the very young | |||
*Professor Sedgewick holds a fellowship in Comparative Philology at the Centre for Reality Research, and is an advisor to the Department of Natural Sciences on self-regulating translation protocols | |||
*She has won both the Huntingdon and the McKan prizes for her translations of classic works of literature, and continues to hold a PCAG record in the linguistic category | |||
*Professor Sedgewick's lifetime of achievement in the field of language research is now honoured by the annual Sedgewick lecture, given by a scholar on a topic of popular interest | |||
*She is one of less than 20 people in the city who speak Ryfa and Darudin | |||
*In 263, the Carrick Foundation named the Sedgewick Travel Bursary in her honour, to enable a young Academician to spend a year traveling for the purposes of linguistic research | |||
*Professor Sedgewick has been a radical force for change in the city, with a history of protesting issues of environmental and city concern | |||
*She is on the board of the Alchemy Bay Society, the Catbite Nature Protection Fund and is an active member of the Mazy Trust. | |||
===General=== | ===General=== | ||
*Has "a long and colourful history of civil disobedience, including a notorious incident in 248 in which her students organised a public foreign-language debate over the environmental policies of the Council on the steps of City Hall as their final project." | |||
*Arrested at [[Northside conflict|a protest against development]] of the [[Northside Nature Preserve]], as one of the organizers/speakers | |||
===References=== | ===References=== | ||
Revision as of 15:36, 30 April 2005
Career
- Professor Sedgewick became Senior Fellow of Languages in 240AC
- She has mastered more than 40 languages, and is a leading authority in the ancient languages of the Perplex City region
- She maintains a particular emphasis on techniques of teaching languages to the very young
- Professor Sedgewick holds a fellowship in Comparative Philology at the Centre for Reality Research, and is an advisor to the Department of Natural Sciences on self-regulating translation protocols
- She has won both the Huntingdon and the McKan prizes for her translations of classic works of literature, and continues to hold a PCAG record in the linguistic category
- Professor Sedgewick's lifetime of achievement in the field of language research is now honoured by the annual Sedgewick lecture, given by a scholar on a topic of popular interest
- She is one of less than 20 people in the city who speak Ryfa and Darudin
- In 263, the Carrick Foundation named the Sedgewick Travel Bursary in her honour, to enable a young Academician to spend a year traveling for the purposes of linguistic research
- Professor Sedgewick has been a radical force for change in the city, with a history of protesting issues of environmental and city concern
- She is on the board of the Alchemy Bay Society, the Catbite Nature Protection Fund and is an active member of the Mazy Trust.
General
- Has "a long and colourful history of civil disobedience, including a notorious incident in 248 in which her students organised a public foreign-language debate over the environmental policies of the Council on the steps of City Hall as their final project."
- Arrested at a protest against development of the Northside Nature Preserve, as one of the organizers/speakers
